Posted on 04/20/2017 4:27:08 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Embattled ex-IRS executive Lois Lerner was in federal court last week, asking a judge to seal her forthcoming deposition due to the inflammatory nature of her testimony.
Lerner told the judge that if her actions at the IRS were to become public knowledge, she could face death threats from angry Americans – particularly those on the conservative side of the spectrum.
Lerner is well-known for her role in the IRS’s partisan targeting of Tea Party groups; under the Obama administration, the IRS singled out nonprofit groups with conservative, Tea Party-ish style names for extra scrutiny. Many of their cases lingered in limbo for years while the IRS pretended to review their applications. Ultimately, there came to be no denying that there was a systematic, political effort inside the IRS to make life as difficult as possible for groups seen as threats to Obama’s agenda.
Lerner and Holly Paz are scheduled to testify in a class action lawsuit against the IRS, which is being brought by 428 groups who were affected by the targeting scandal. But before the pair commit their testimony to record, they want assurances that what they say will never be read by the public.
Mss. Lerner and Paz have demonstrated that the public dissemination of their deposition testimony would expose them and their families to harassment and a credible risk of violence and physical harm,” their lawyer said in documents to the court.
Reportedly, the women have submitted evidence to the judge that shows they’ve already received threats couched in “graphic, profane, and disturbing language.”
No matter what the judge decides, the request itself has put the IRS scandal back in the headlines, and it comes at a time when Republicans want the Justice Department to re-open the case against Lerner. They say she deliberately obstructed the congressional investigation into the targeting and may have even contributed to it with her snide emails about Republicans.
If Lerner is so terrified about her actions coming to public light, that says it all. If she could reduce her perceived role in all this, she would shout her testimony from the highest mountain. Instead, she has wrapped herself in every layer of secrecy she can find. Either she’s protecting a certain someone higher on the food chain or she’s covering her own behind.
Knowing the Obama administration, we’re guessing it’s a little of both.
I guess I could live with that compromise.
I'd still like to know what she did - but maybe that can wait until after her head is posted on a pike (because I'm sure she wouldn't mind if we read her transcript afterwards).
“In the kind of country Lois Lerner wants, she’d be taken to the basement of Lubyanka prison and shot”.
YES!!!!!
That, or an old fashioned tarring and feathering, with a face branding.
F-her. Trials and evidence should be made public. She lied and procrastinated and obstructed the investigation. Death is the appropriate penalty for officials who use their power to stifle political opposition.
No, she would be running that prison.
Anyone remember what happened to Marie Antoinette?
Okay, Attorney General Sessions, get on it!
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LOVE to see someone slap the smug off that creatures face!
So seal it. It’ll get leaked.
The Judge should of said, Denied, 90 days for Contempt of Court.
Death threat?
Nah.
Seeing you waddle off to prison in an jumpsuit orange would suffice.
That'd be because, unlike YOU, some folks value the framework of law that constitutes our Republic and secures the inalienable rights of all - especially against parasites like you, Comrade.
Regards,
An Audited Tea Partyer.
That’s serious chutzpah. Ask not to be prosecuted for a crime because your victims will be unhappy with you.
Lois...plead guilty...go to jail.
Anyone remember what happened to Lavrenty Beria?
If you’re in prison for the rest of your life, and you should be, death threats shouldn’t be a problem for you, Slow Lerner.
Conservative’s had better pay attention. After everything the Obama Administration has done for American’s not to realize how Evil Democrats are is stupid. Anyone denying this is as bad and ignorant as a Terrorist! In fact I respect terrorist more than I do most Democrats.
She should be safe from harassment while she’s rotting in a federal pen.
Very good point and right on the money.
In short, congress disgusts me!
The whole bunch is protected...on both sides of the aisle...
“Her actions”
You know.....the actions she took.
The things she did to intentionally harm people.
People she didn’t even know, but yet, hated.
Because Democrats are Democrats first. Being an American is way down on their list.
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